Debashish Nandi is a filmmaker and photographer based in Assam, India.

He joined the Green Hub Video Fellowship on wildlife conservation and cultural development in the Northeast region of India in 2017. Since then he has been associated with documentary films that focus on human experiences with nature. He worked as the in-house cinematographer and editor for Srishti Films in Bangalore for two years post Green Hub.

Over the years, documenting alternative paradigms to development, rights-based conservation and oral histories are some of the spaces his work explores through films. In 2021, he co-directed a feature length film Morisika: The Story of the Boatman; an attempt to map the history of the Brahmaputra river and its communities in Assam. It positions itself as an intersection between society-art-nature through the medium of creative non-fiction.

The film gave birth to The River Project/Nodi Prokolpo- “A Peoples’ Biography of Rivers” of North East India. Co Founded by Vandana Menon and him, it is an attempt to record stories passed down through oral retellings, music, drama, customary rituals, dance and sound. Artists, storytellers, fisherfolk, boatmen, pastoralists, farmers from riverine communities come together to share their collective histories in their own voices. These histories are then retold through new mediums.